An overthinker’s advice for reducing anxiety long-term.
1) I’m well aware that anxiety for you may have been, thus far, a life-long ordeal.
Same with chronic stress.
As for depression, we’re not talking about that yet, got a couple videos addressing within the next 3 days.
If you’ve ever been diagnosed, or self-diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, or other conditions involving an anxious nature, then I’m sorry that you’ve had to deal with that.
Today, we’re gonna look at how to start addressing these things for ourselves, without medication.
Although it’s okay if you use medication.
This won’t be anything about “channeling” anxiety and other mental health symptoms/conditions, but I WILL be putting out a video in a few days that talks exactly about that.
So, here’s what I believe to be some necessary steps in reconditioning yourself neurologically in a way that reduces the severity and regularity of the stress response, that you probably experience on a daily basis, towards heaps of shit.
2) Today, we’re just looking at how to become a calm individual.
In regards to your physical body at all given times, you should be letting your breath flow naturally through your nose alone.
Or you can do this, if you prefer.
Try both:
Breathe deep diaphragmatic (through your belly and not your chest), hold, tense from ankles to face and hands, hold for 10 seconds, release and breathe out too.
3) Do vinyasa yoga, I follow sessions run by Breathe and Flow on YouTube, but it’s very difficult.
Regardless, great channel.
Again, I’m making a video about yoga specifically in 2 days, but here’s why I’ve mentioned it:
Helps you build the absolutely core skill of mind-muscle connection, which helps build you into the kind of person who can calmly observe their emotions, thoughts and sensations as they arise.
It can also be extremely physically demanding (what I do is hard as fuck), which forces you to adapt… with calmness.
4) Mindful eating:
Stop multitasking.
Doing… is not always productive.
I don’t watch or listen to anything while eating, NO WAY.
I enjoy every gobble of that food.
And usually for a while, I just sit cupping my warm coffee mug or cup, holding each sip in my mouth.
And while waiting for public transport, or while on it maybe.
Being present, and mindful.
Mindful of voices, arguments, landscapes out the window, beeping cars, birds as you walk, thoughts as they cross your brain.
5) And there’s another point:
Let your intrusive thoughts run their course.
It’ll be hard, at first, or for a while.
But eventually it’ll be easier, because of everything that we’ve spoken about today.
Reconditioning you.
That’s what this channel’s about.
So if you wanna learn more about reconditioning when it comes to anxiety, stress, depression and perhaps other psychological or neurological conditions, stick around for the next few days at least.
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Much love.
